302 stories by "Tim Dunleavy"
The Arden Theatre's holiday show, Cinderella, is a peculiar take on the children's classic ... Plaid Tidings' mixture of comedy and music isn't always a successful one, but when it sticks to…
In The Music Man, Marian Paroo recognizes that Harold Hill is a crook, but falls in love with him anyway because she sees the hope and good will he inspires in people. In Theatre Exile's The…
Lantern Theater's The Liar is one of those comedies of errors where improbable situations, mistaken identities, and identical twins keep all the characters busy and confused from beginning t…
J.C. Lee's highly enjoyable new comedy focuses on a girl for whom art, rebellion, self-expression and self-promotion are inextricably linked ... while it's never less than interesting, Freud…
Theatre Horizon's handsome, spacious new home in Norristown is getting a first-rate introduction via Pretty Fire, actress/author Charlayne Woodard's finely detailed chronicle of the highs an…
Stars of David is Philadelphia Theatre Company's ambitious new musical that attempts to provide an overview of the way modern American Jews feel about their place in society ... Lee Miller w…
Quintessence Theatre's Othello is tough ... Gutenberg! The Musical! is a good show about a bad show.
What makes the Arden's new production so interesting is that it doesn't pummel you with its power.
Mamet's play is designed to be provocative, and it certainly provoked the audience on opening night ... Villanova Theatre is offering a fine production of How I Learned To Drive, Paula Vogel…
Red-Eye to Havre de Grace is a mesmerizing piece of theatre ... What makes Bang so great is how it subverts and explodes our expectations ... Jacqueline Goldfinger's Raw Stitch is a raunchy …
"The Edge of Our Bodies," "Creditors," "Zero Cost House" and "Ivona, Princess of Burgundia."
[T]his adaptation of Erich Segal's simplistic, nuance-free 1970 novel about a rich boy who falls for a poor, saintly girl doesn't add any freshness to a romance that was already cliched fort…
Reviews of "Jeff Coon and Ben Dibble Must Die," "27," and "Devotedly, Sincerely Yours: The Story of the USO."
David Ives' New Jerusalem played last fall at the Lantern Theater Company and was the best-selling production in the theater's 18-year history. The play has now been brought back, with the s…
Ira Levin's Deathtrap ran for over four years on Broadway (where it opened in 1978), and it's not hard to see why. It's an enormously appealing play that combines comedy with mystery, ridicu…
Mauckingbird Theatre Company's take on Much Ado About Nothing has several commendable qualities.
Director David O'Connor's production may not always be great, but it's never boring, and it's filled with striking moments.
But Not Now, Darling leaves out the sophistication, settling for farce-and a rather lowbrow style of farce at that.
Allison Moore's Hazard County aims to examine Southern stereotypes, racial politics, and the thin line between news, reality TV, and exploitation. That's a lot for one play to cover in 100 m…
Tulipomania has unlikable characters, a contrived setup, a dramatic arc where nothing is at stake, and songs that don't elevate the show to a higher level ... Reasons to Be Pretty isn't a pl…
Despite Sutton's winning performance, though, Buddy is a clunky show ... The Island is one intense theatrical experience.
In Enda Walsh's The Walworth Farce, now being given a sharp and energetic production by Inis Nua Theatre Company, a man and his two grown sons are living in a decrepit apartment on the fifte…
Four performers with sensational voices and vibrant personalities enliven Rodgers and Hammerstein's A Grand Night for Singing, a revue at the Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio, cel…
While Robin Hood shows the virtues of a small cast, Act II Playhouse's production of My Fair Lady shows that sometimes a cast can be too small for a show's good.
We're in playwright/screenwriter Martin McDonagh's world, a place where macabre, bloody humor feels perfectly natural ... Hamletmachine and Medeaplays are two short plays by Heiner Müller (…
